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Case Western Reserve University students to showcase products at International Consumer Electronics Show

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Information on the Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Device, designed by CWRU graduate students John and Mark Lewandowski with the help of assistant professor of international health Brian Grimberg, will be available at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
(John Kuntz, The Plain Dealer)

The area is housed among 200 exhibits in the Eureka Park TechZone at The Venetian hotel, which is dedicated to start-up companies.

More than 152,000 people from around the world are expected to visit the annual show from January 7-10. The main venue is the Las Vegas Convention and World Trade Center.

It will feature more than 3,200 exhibitors promoting consumer tech products across 15 categories.

Bob Sopko, director of the CWRU LaunchPad program, said he learned of the opportunity at CES when Bill Wichert, CWRU’s manager of information technology services, returned from the show last year.

“He discovered Eureka Pavilion for start-ups and learned it would include colleges in 2014,” Sopko said. “He said this looks like a great place to be.”

Sopko said he approached students who had developed projects, originally as classroom assignments, then pursued their idea through the LaunchPad program and in think[box], the university’s invention center.

They were thrilled to go to the show, not only to try and promote their work but to experience the show, he said.

While it can cost an exhibitor up to $150,000 for convention floor space, booth and other expenses, booths at Eureka Park and Academia Tech are only $1,000, Sopko said. CWRU will have two booths.

Each of the 14 students who are attending the convention is responsible for all travel and lodging costs, he said. Students for Sprav Water LLC and Disease Diagnostic Group LLC chose not to attend, but information on their products will be featured in the booths, he said.

Student companies are:

Carbon Origins, which provides launch services. The rockets are designed to be rapidly-reusable and carry science and engineering payloads to measure atmospheric and flight data, which is used to develop their suborbital rockets.

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